OCTOBER 2009 EDITION

 

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Inside
Computerworld / October 2009

NEWS DIGEST
4 Philippines gears for WiMax invasion | Telco unveils partnership plans on Net training for elders

5 IT vendor seeks OMB alliance to battle Customs charges | RP e-gaming firm seals $10M deal with UK group

IT INDICATORS
8 Report: IM is top collaboration tool for enterprises | Forrester: Social networking grows up

OPINION
10 Managing Technology Creating Buzz with Web 2.0 Tools by Michael Alan Hamlin
44 Web Security Lifeline Threats in the Social Networking Site Landscape by Ryan Flores
64 Executive Briefing Mobile Marketing: Learnings and Way Forward by
66 RealIT: The Inside Track Tapping the Internet to Generate New Revenue by Elmar Gomez

KNOWLEDGE CENTER
36 The Great Co-location Debate. With cloud com¬puting grow¬ing in popu¬larity, SMBs are questioning whether it is more practical to co-locate their data centers or completely bypass that option and head into the cloud?

GREEN IT
46 IBM Zooms Into Molecule For Power-Efficient Chips. IBM hopes to make manipulation of molecules easier with the research breakthrough.

STRATEGIES & TACTICS
12 Tech for SMBS

16 The Beauty of Technology
For a cosmetics and skin care firm like Forever Flawless, helping others improve their physical appearances entailed automating their company’s business processes first.

20 IT in Bloom
For Island Rose, the scent of technology has helped the company blossom to be the best practical model for use of IT in the SME industry.

IT IN HEALTHCARE
48 How Emerging Wireless Techs Are Transforming Healthcare. The important aspect of increased mobile data speeds will be their impact on the mobile “telehealth” devices that doctors are increasingly using to keep track of their patients’ conditions.

CAREER WATCH

54 Where Not to Find a Job. According to a recent research, IT job seekers shouldn’t waste their time with help wanted ads or career fairs.

55 How to Manage Layoff Survivor Syndrome. How can you minimize the effects of survivor’s syndrome before, during and after a layoff? We give you three tips from The Conference Board.

CIO ROUNDTABLE
26 Managing IT Staff

SECURITY
40 Small Business Network Security 101
Small businesses must cope with the same Internet security threats as larger companies do, but usually without the same budget and manpower.

42 Social Media New Battleground for Malware
According to Sophos re¬search, about two-thirds of businesses fear that social net¬working endangers corporate security.

43 Stopping Data Leakage via Encryption
Sophos says that the first step to take with encryption is to trust the technology.

INTERNET
50 How to Protect Your Brand in Cyberspace
While cybersquatters have been around almost as long as the Web itself, the problem is getting worse. What should you do to protect your business?

POWER TOOLS
58 Intel Core i5. After releasing what is touted to be the world’s fastest microprocessor in the Core i7 last year, Intel now brings the same Nehalem ultra-fast processing technology to the mainstream market with the recently-released Intel Core i5.

59 Asus EeeTop PC ET20/22 | Lenovo IdeaPad U350 | Asus RT-N13U

INDUSTRY BULLETIN 62

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